In this colony, Louisa Lawson established the all-women-produced journal The Dawn. William Wentworth advocated for the rights of landholders who illegally claimed government land in this colony; the Robertson Land Acts later broke up that “squattocracy.” In an attempt to support rebels in Ireland, Philip Cunningham led an uprising of Irish settlers in this colony’s Castle Hill Rebellion. Lachlan Macquarie became this colony’s governor after the confiscation of John Macarthur’s alcohol distillation equipment by William Bligh led to the Rum Rebellion. The First Fleet brought hundreds of convicts from England to establish this colony around Botany Bay. For 10 points, what first Australian colony shares its name with a present-day state based around Sydney? ■END■
ANSWER: New South Wales [or NSW; prompt on British Australia]
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